Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/06/20

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Subject: [Leica] M9 Grotty Sensor
From: richard at imagecraft.com (Richard Man)
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 02:32:36 -0700
References: <BANLkTimtYc2=sU2sDzRszgROyta0YVbBcQ@mail.gmail.com>

All sort of stuff can get in when you are changing lens. Most people have
good luck with DIY kits and a number of people, myself included, use the
Arctic Butterfly system.

When I first used it, during a trip to the Joshua Tree National Park, I just
could not keep the sensor clean after a day of shooting. In much less harsh
environment though, I only clean it every few months. Try to change lens in
cleaner places, point the camera down, etc. should help too.

On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 2:10 AM, Neil Beddoe <neilbeddoe at 
googlemail.com>wrote:

> I normally shoot pictures of people in towns and as a result my pictures
> don't tend to have large areas with no detail such as blue skies.  I shot a
> picture of a coastal scene at the weekend and discovered lots of round
> spots
> in the sky area when I upped the contrast.  They look like spots of oil on
> the sensor.  When I took Aperture's loupe to the pictures I took when I
> first got the camera they were there too, except that they are fewer in
> number.
>
> I'm going to take the camera to the Leica Centre in Mayfair for a sensor
> cleaning but but this looks like oil getting sprayed from somewhere inside
> the camera to me.  Has anyone else seen this problem?
>
> Neil
>
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